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Promoting private forests for biodiversity conservation and ecosystems restoration in the Sahel region [PDF]

Nature Conservation, 2023
Private forests have the potential to mitigate biodiversity loss and improve community livelihoods. However, information on the socio-ecological factors that drive their establishment and long-term management are limited.
Karafa Bognini, Loyapin Bondé, Sié Sylvestre Da, Abisha Mapendembe, Roch Yao Gnabeli   +4 more
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Law and Policy Review on Green Hydrogen Potential in ECOWAS Countries

Energies, 2022
This paper aims to review existing energy-sector and hydrogen-energy-related legal, policy, and strategy documents in the ECOWAS region. To achieve this aim, current renewable-energy-related laws, acts of parliament, executive orders, presidential ...
Abdoulaye Ballo, Koffi Kouakou Valentin, Bruno Korgo, Kehinde Olufunso Ogunjobi, Solomon Nwabueze Agbo, Daouda Kone, Moumini Savadogo   +6 more
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Effects of customized climate services on land and labor productivity in Burkina Faso and Ghana

Climate Services, 2022
Climate services favor adopting strategies to increase agricultural productivity, enhance sustainable development, and adapt to unavoidable climate variability and change.
Safiétou Sanfo, Seyni Salack, Inoussa A. Saley, Elidaa K. Daku, Nadine O. Worou, Arnaud Savadogo, Hamadou Barro, Samuel Guug, Harouna Koné, Boubacar Ibrahim, Alfredo Rojas, Christine Raimond, Kehinde O. Ogunjobi   +12 more
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A Ricardian valuation of the impact of climate change on Nigerian cocoa production: Insight for adaptation policy [PDF]

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2018
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine the relative importance of climate normals (average long-term temperature and precipitation) in explaining net farm revenue per hectare (NRh) for supplementary irrigated and rainfed cocoa farms in Nigeria.
William M. Fonta, Abbi M. Kedir, Aymar Y. Bossa, Karen M. Greenough, Bamba M. Sylla, Elias T. Ayuk   +5 more
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Fishermen’s perceptions and experiences toward the impact of climate change and anthropogenic activities on freshwater fish biodiversity in Côte d’Ivoire

Discover Sustainability, 2021
Africa’s freshwater ecosystems are impacted by many threats due to climate change and several anthropogenic activities. In Côte d’Ivoire, the economy relies mostly on agriculture, which covers around 64% of the land surface.
Amien Isaac Amoutchi, Thomas Mehner, Ogechi Nnabuchi Ugbor, Alpha Kargbo, Kouamelan Essetchi Paul   +4 more
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Assessing climate change impact on the hydropower potential of the Bamboi catchment (Black Volta, West Africa) [PDF]

Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 2021
This study evaluates the impact of future climate change (CC) on the hydropower generation potential of the Bamboi catchment (Black Volta) in West Africa using a conceptual rainfall-runoff model (HBV light) and regional climate models (RCMs)–global ...
Y. Yira, Y. Yira, T. C. Mutsindikwa, T. C. Mutsindikwa, A. Y. Bossa, A. Y. Bossa, J. Hounkpè, J. Hounkpè, S. Salack   +8 more
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Low-cost adaptation options to support green growth in agriculture, water resources, and coastal zones

Scientific Reports, 2022
The regional climate as it is now and in the future will put pressure on investments in sub-Saharan Africa in water resource management, fisheries, and other crop and livestock production systems.
Seyni Salack, Safiétou Sanfo, Moussa Sidibe, Elidaa K. Daku, Ibrahima Camara, Mame Diarra Bousso Dieng, Koufanou Hien, Bio Mohamadou Torou, Kehinde O. Ogunjobi, Sheick Ahmed Khalil S. B. Sangare, Konan Raoul Kouame, Yao Bernard Koffi, Stefan Liersch, Moumini Savadogo, Alessandra Giannini   +14 more
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The impact of crop farmers’ decisions on future land use, land cover changes in Kintampo North Municipality of Ghana [PDF]

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, 2018
Purpose - This paper aims to assess the rate and land category contributing to the changes in seven land-uses in the Kintampo North Municipality of Ghana and the effect of the decisions of land users on future landscapes.
Enoch Bessah, Abdullahi Bala, Sampson Kweku Agodzo, Appollonia Aimiosino Okhimamhe, Emmanuel Amoah Boakye, Saratu Usman Ibrahim   +5 more
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Landsat-8 vs. Sentinel-2: examining the added value of sentinel-2’s red-edge bands to land-use and land-cover mapping in Burkina Faso

GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2018
The availability of freely available moderate-to-high spatial resolution (10–30 m) satellite imagery received a major boost with the recent launch of the Sentinel-2 sensor by the European Space Agency.
Gerald Forkuor, Kangbeni Dimobe, Idriss Serme, Jerome Ebagnerin Tondoh   +3 more
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Global land use changes are four times greater than previously estimated

Nature Communications, 2021
Quantifying land use change is critical in tackling global challenges related to food, climate and biodiversity. Here the authors show that land use change has affected 32 % of the global land area in six decades (1960- 2019) by combining multiple open ...
Karina Winkler, Richard Fuchs, Mark Rounsevell, Martin Herold   +3 more
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